Naraku and The Pure Heart

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Introduction

Akira was the name she was given hundreds of years ago by her mother. It was common practice in her family to name the daughter a unisex name so that when she reached maturity, she could seek out her mate as a male. The ritual was an old family custom handed down from generation to generation, it was a pain but was worth it because it assured the male truly loved, and protected the female of her family. It required the female to perform several tests of the male without him knowing he was being tested in the first place.

If you hadn't of guessed by now Akira was a female demon the top-ranked female demon every year, she went to defend her title but she always wore a mask to prevent the men there from seeing her face. Even with her face covered Akira had many male suitors they wanted her for her strength, not for love, and she knew it. Akira was blessed with the gift of knowing what was in another person's heart. She was also blessed with great beauty that would attract any males attention but with age beauty faded and like any women she didn't want her male looking elsewhere when she was old.

It was quite common in her family to fall in love with a heart of pure evil, only to purify it during mating changing a once evil man forever. Her Father had been an evil man when he met her Mother but was changed completely too good after meeting her mother, he didn't even change back after her Mother's death at the hands of an evil man. She had seen the love her parents had shared and the devastation her death had caused. Just like anyone she wanted to have what her parents had it was what kept her going when males refused to submit to a test.

Her Father died shortly after her mother she knew it was because his heart was broken by her death. Akira kept his clothes and used them quite often to hide the fact that she was female. She knew as an unmated female that men would flock to her because of her great beauty, and with no family, she had little protection from all the possible male suitors that would be seeking to mate with her. It was easier to avoid males altogether than be bothered all the time and as her Father's scent started to fade she found herself having to find a way to keep male scent in the armor she had. It was her good fortune to have run into a wolf tribe short on armor she instantly struck a deal with the tribe allowing them use of the armor as long as only males wore it and she would be allowed to trade.

It was time yet again for the annual contest among women, as the champion it was Akira's job to defend her title. It was fun since they're limited to hand to hand combat, and not allowed to use their demon forms, it prevented the weaker women from entering the competition but this year was different the prize was a necklace with a jewel on it. Akira could sense a great evil power coming from this jewel, and decided she had to have it something with that kind of power was bound to attract the man she was looking for. This would make her search for a mate easier for her, as he was bound to seek her out. She was growing tired of searching only to come up empty-handed. She was more than ready to settle down and raise a family.

The contest had taken a full day but it was now down to Akira, and a female named Kagura for some reason she carried a male scent but it wasn't a mated male sent. Kagura asked, "Who do I have the pleasure of beating?"

She replies, "I am Akira, the champion and I have never lost. I will not be losing to the likes of you either so you should give up now."

Kagura growls in trying to scare her. Akira just giggles, and says, "You really think that will scare me? Seriously you must not have ever met anyone with real skills on the battlefield."

Kagura is now really pissed off even more so because Naraku is chuckling in the audience. The judge steps in and says ready, set, battle before quickly moving out-of-the-way. Akira takes her fighting stance as Kagura charges at her. Akira quickly shifts, and moves out-of-the-way while using a leg sweep to make her fall down. Akira jumps onto her and pins her for a moment before she manages to break out. After several hours of battle, Akira finally pins Kagura in a way that she can't get out of, and she admits defeat. The Judge holds up her hand saying, "The winner Akira."

Kagura yells angry at her loss, "How do I even know that she's a woman, just look at her!" She was desperate to win the prize by any means possible Naraku was going to be pissed if she returned empty handed.

Akira smirks under her mask knowing she's wearing typical male combat gear, so she speaks up saying, "I have no objections to Kagura and a female judge examining me to settle this matter."

Akira heads to her tent with Kagura, plus a female judge, moments later they both come out, and the judge says, "There is no question that she is, in fact, a female."

Akira claims her prize and leaves very quickly not giving Kagura a chance to take the prize from her or to see which why she went. She knew Kagura could track her scent but most didn't bother following a scent trail for a trinket it was too time-consuming.